In the morning of May 2, the PAR Steering Committee of the Government held a Meeting to announce the Public Administration Reform (PAR) Indext and the Satisfaction Survey on Administration Reform in 2017 of the central ministries, provinces and cities.

            The meeting was attended by the Standing Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh, Head of the Government PAR Steering Committee; Chairperson of the Central Committee of Vietnam Fatherland Front Tran Thanh Man; Minister of Home Affairs Le Vinh Tan together with leaders of ministries and localities.

The Meeting for the announcement of PAR Indext in 2017 (Photo by: Le Son) 

Accordingly, Lao Cai ranked 21^st, increasing 6 levels compared to 2016. Among the eight criteria, Lao Cai achieved the high ranks in 3 groups of criteria: Formulation and Implementation of legal documents, ranked N^o17/63, increased 30 levels compared to 2016; public administration reform, ranked N^o20/63, increased 33 levels compared to 2016; public finance reform, ranked N^o12/63, increased 51 levels compared to 2016.

Compared with 2016, the ranking of PAR Index in 2017 of provinces and cities have been considered to achieve many positive and significant results which prove that the leaders of the localities have paid a lof of attention to Administration Reform.

Quang Ninh province ranked the first with 89.45 points out of 100, followed by Hanoi and Dong Nai province. Da Nang ranked N^o4 and Hai Phong ranked N^o 5. Quang Ngai was the province with the lowest index, standing at the bottom of the table with 59.69 points.

The delegates at the Meeting

Regarding the PAR results in 2017 of the ministries, 12 ministries had achieved 80% and more. Of which, the State Bank of Vie Nam had the highest index score of 92.36%, followed by the Ministry of Information and Communication, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment , Ministry of Education and Training, Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.          Besides, 19 ministries had achieved 79.92% and there were no ministries which obtained less than 70%.

On this occasion, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front reported the results of measuring the satisfaction of citizens and organizations with the service provided by the State administrative agencies in 2017. Overall, the satisfaction rate for the administrative service of the whole country is 80.90%.

Six provinces had satisfied the overall administrative service of the province at more than 90%, the highest was 95.97%. There were 12 provinces which were in the range from 85-90% , 13 provinces which were in the range from 80-85%, 19 provinces in the range from 75-80% and 13 provinces less than 75%. The province which had the lowest index was of 67.7%.

The citizens expressed their expectation in further simplifying the administrative procedures, providing more the forms of information and shortening the time for settling the administrative procedures.

               The criteria for measuring the public administration reform index at the provincial level are compromised of 8 areas for the assessment, including 38 criteria and 81 sub-criteria. The rating scale is 100, where the self-assessment score (under Council's assessment) is a maximum of 65.5 / 100 and a sociological survey score of 34.5 / 100.

 Hoang Anh